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Rear-wheel drive (RWD) typically places the engine in the front of the vehicle and the driven wheels are located at the rear, a configuration known as front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout (FR layout). The front mid-engine, rear mid-engine and rear engine layouts are also used.
Summary. If you're shopping for a car and you see the term rear-wheel drive, it means that the car's driven wheels -- i.e., the wheels that receive power from the engine -- are the ones in back. In a rear-wheel-drive (RWD) vehicle, the front wheels don't drive the car at all; their only job is to steer. This has a few advantages relative to a front-wheel-drive (FWD) layout. First, because there are fewer components between the front wheels, those wheels are able to turn more sharply.